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Quarterly Essay: Kangaroo Court by John Hirst; Chris Feik (Editor)
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is perhaps the most hated institution in Australia. In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling legal and moral ...Show more
Quarterly Essays 8 : Groundswell : the Rise to the Greens: The Rise of the Greens by Amanda Lohrey; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who are the Greens, where do they come from and where are they going? In the wake of the Cunningham by-election and the Tasmanian results Amanda Lohrey, novelist and political thinker, looks at the philosophical background of the Greens, the history of the campaigns to save the wilderness and the electi ...Show more
Quarterly Essey 18: The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows by Gail Bell; Chris Feik (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2005, Gail Bell investigates Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take antidepressant drugs? This is a fresh, frank and independent look at the depression culture and the move to medicalise sadness. Bell examines how t ...Show more
Quaterley Essay : The History Question by Inga Clendinnen; Chris Feik (Editor)
Category: Australian History | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In QE23, acclaimed writer and thinker Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? What are the differences between memory, history and myth? Clendinnen discusses what good history looks like and, m ...Show more
Quaterly Essay 9781863954051White Fella Jump Up by Germaine Greer; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the thirdQuarterly Essayof 2003, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense ...Show more
RABBIT SYNDROME AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA by Don Watson; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In "Rabbit Syndrome" Don Watson takes an analytical look at the ways in which the Australian imagination has always been dominated by America. Why are they so much better than we are? Even when it comes to producing books like the Updike "Rabbit" sequence that tell us what we are like? Why are they also ...Show more
RELAXED AND COMFORTABLE QUARTERLY ESSAY by Judith Brett; Chris Feik (Editor)
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the governmeant of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments hav ...Show more
Sending Them Home : Refugees and the New Politics of Indfference (Quarterley Essay 13) by Robert Manne; David Corlett; Chris Feik (Editor)
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine t ...Show more
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
Category: Australian History | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
By Australia's greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life.;-) "Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous," says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular mome ...Show more
The Meaning of History by Henry Kissinger; Patric Leo (Designed by)
Category: Popular History | Series: Essay Ser.
The Meaning of History is the senior thesis written by Henry Kissinger at Harvard university in 1950, when he was twenty-seven. More than 70 years later it is now being published for the first time. The thesis explores the thought of three distinct but important thinkers in the canon of Western philosop ...Show more
Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia: Quarterly Essay 22 by Amanda Lohrey
Category: unmapped | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In QE22, Amanda Lohrey looks at the Christian revival in Australia and its effect on our politics and public life. Voting for Jesusexplores the world of evangelical Christianity. Lohrey talks to the ground troops - what do they believe and why? She discusses Hillsong, the politics of abortion, the examp ...Show more
War by Kurt Almqvist & Alexander Linklater (eds.)
Category: Military | Series: Essay Ser.
It has been claimed that around 14,500 wars have been fought since 3,500 BC. Humanity has only experienced 300 years of peace on Earth. During the twentieth century more people in total, were killed in wars, than during any previous century. Relatively, though we kill each other less often now. Are we g ...Show more